- "That weapon defeats foes with one hit. However, the reverse is also true, as its wielder will also fall to a single strike. You can use this weapon's ability only twice within a set period of time...only when it is glowing. When enough time passes, the weapon will regain its sheen along with its power."
- ― Maz Koshia describing the One Hit Obliterator (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
The power to kill any target in a single hit. Variation of Absolute Attack, Death Inducement and Probability Manipulation. Advanced version of One Hit KO.
Also Called[]
- Death In One Strike
- Instant Kill Attack
- One Shot Kill
- Single Hit Kill
Capabilities[]
The user can kill a target or an opponent with a single strike. The attack carries special attributes, such as lethal poison or death inducement, that would result in an instant or otherwise assured death the moment it connects, disregarding on the location of contact or the target's remaining vitality. This does not just mean brute force, as the strike must possess a certain quality other than raw power that allows it to kill in one blow.
The instant kill may be capable of bypassing Resurrection, as it deals death before the opponent has a chance to rejuvenate.
Examples[]
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Absolute Attack
- Absolute Strength
- Conceptual Attacks
- Destiny Manipulation
- Durability Negation
- Irreversible Destruction
- Luck
- Probability Manipulation
- Special Attacks
Limitations[]
- Cannot affect those who can survive anything.
- Cannot kill and harm the users of Absolute Immortality and Life and Death Transcendence.
- Will not work on Flawless Indestructibility and Absolute Invulnerability.
- If the attack is blocked or evaded, it becomes useless.
- Users of Instant Kill Immunity are immune.
- Friendly fire or misfire will lead to unintentionally killing an ally or oneself.
- May only work under certain conditions/targets.
- May not work on those with Immortality or Invulnerability due to limitations of the user.
- Useless against users of an Unfettered Body or Meta Resurrection.
- May be ineffective to users of Undead Physiology.
- Doesn't work on Layered Life.
Known Users[]
See Also: One-Hit Kill.
Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]
- Users of Murasame (Akame Ga Kill!)
- Gin Ichimaru (Bleach) via Korose, Kamishini no Yari
- Dan Woohyun (Chronicles Of The Martial God’s Return/Record of Return)
- Saechika (Code:Breaker); Effacement
- Arcadiamon (Digimon); via God Matrix
- Omnimon X (Digimon); via All Delete
- Jesmon GX (Digimon); Knights' Intruder
- Spike the Devil Man (Dragon Ball); via Devilmite Beam
- Ankhseram Black Magic Users (Fairy Tail)
- Hokuto Shinken Practitioners (Fist of the North Star)
- Roku Tadano (Game Maou)
- Ai Enma (Hell Girl)
- Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable); via Killer Queen
- Ijincheon (Hero Killer)
- Cheon Yeo Woon (Nano Machine)
- Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto); via Murderous Bone Ash/All-Killing Ash Bones
- Hyuga Clan (Naruto); via Gentle Fist
- Magellan (One Piece)
- Saitama (One-Punch Man)
- Ariel (So I'm a Spider, So What?/Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?)
- Kumoko/Shiraori (So I'm a Spider, So What?/Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?)
- Fiamma of the Right (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Aleister Crowley (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Coronzon (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Aradia (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Jirou Sorashima (Wallman)
Cartoon/Comics[]
- Lady Shiva (DC Comics)
- Death (Family Guy)
- Mirabel (The Fungus Among Us); only on Players with less than full netherite armor
- Saint of Killers (Preacher/Vertigo Comics)
- Practitioners of the Hercules Method (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode)
Literature[]
- Farslayer (Book of Swords)
- Deplorable Word Users (Chronicles of Narnia)
- Basilisk (Harry Potter)
- Killing Curse Users (Harry Potter)
- Nefarian Serpine (Skulduggery Pleasant); via his Red Right Hand
Live Television/Movies[]
- Godzilla (Godzilla); via Spiral Ray
- Bad Rain (Resident Evil)
Folklore/Mythology[]
- Medusa (Greek Mythology); via Petrifying Gaze
- Basilisk (Mythology/Folklore); via Killing Eyes
- Cockatrice (Mythology/Folklore); via Killing Eyes
- Grim Reaper (Mythology/Folklore)
Tabletop Games[]
- Exodia the Forbidden One (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
- Holactie the Creator of Light (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Video Games[]
- White Bomber (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Regulus/Bulzeeb (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Astral Knights (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Death (Dragon's Dogma)
- Noelle Holiday (Deltarune Chapter 2); Normal and Weird Route, via IceShock/SnowGrave
- Cid Kagenou (Minoru Kagenou) (The Eminence in Shadow)
- Rest (Final Fantasy VI); via Calmness/Repose
- Users of "Lethality" (Fire Emblem)
- Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Silent Realm Guardians (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
- X (Mega Man); via Hadouken and Shoryuken.
- Awakened Zero (Mega Man X5)
- Dark Sun (Miitopia)
- Fiend (Miitopia)
- Terror Fiend (Miitopia)
- Kombatants (Mortal Kombat)
- Starmen (Mother/EarthBound); via PK Beam γ
- Ultimate Chimera (Mother 3)
- Dr. Zomboss (Plants vs Zombies)
- Zombies (Plants vs Zombies)
- Gargantuars
- Electric Blueberry (Plants vs Zombies 2)
- Pokémon who can use "Fissure", "Guillotine", "Horn Drill", or "Sheer Cold" (Pokémon)
- Robloxians (ROBLOX);via Mad Murderer Knife
- Machina (Shinza Banshou series); via Midgardr Völsunga Saga
- Reinhatd Tristan eugene Heydrich (Shinza Banshou series); via Longinuslanze Testament
- Ren Fuji (Shinza Banshou series); via Margueritte-Bois de Justice
- Golden Queen ("Skylanders Battlecast"); using The Queen’s Decree
- Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- The Ghost (Spelunky)
- Inklings (Splatoon)
- Agent 3
- Octarians (Splatoon)
- DJ Octavio
- Akuma (Street Fighter)
- Boss Bass (Super Mario Bros.)
- Bubba (Super Mario 64)
- Barbatos Goetia (Tales of Destiny)
- The Spy (Team Fortress 2); via backstab
- Marshall Law (Tekken)
- Paul Phoenix (Tekken)
- King Hassan (TYPE-MOON); via Azrael
- Li Shuwen (TYPE-MOON)
- Chara (Undertale); Genocide Route, depends on LV
- Frisk (Undertale); Genocide Route, depends on LV
- Deathwing (Warcraft series)
- Illidan Stormrage (Warcraft series)
- Lich King (Warcraft series)
- Malos (Xenoblade Chronicles 2)
Known Items[]
Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]
- Murasame (Akame Ga Kill!)
- The Vorpal Blade/Sword (Jabberwock)
- Doku Doku no Mi's Kinjite Poison (One Piece)
- Incarnation of the Radius Sword (Sword Art Online)
- Object Eraser (Sword Art Online)
Cartoons/Comics[]
- Morning Star (Castlevania)
Literature[]
- Ivory Knife (Chronicles of the Kencyrath)
- Killing Curse (Harry Potter)
- The Vorpal Blade/Sword (Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol)
- God-Killer Sword (Skulduggery Pleasant)
- Sceptre of the Ancients (Skulduggery Pleasant)
Video Games/Visual Novels[]
- Gravity Bomb (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Freeze/ThornRing (Deltarune Chapter 2); via Power Augmentation to ice spells
- Daybreak (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
- Fatalities (Mortal Kombat)
- Overkill Glove (Roblox: Slap Battles)
- God Glove (Roblox: Slap Battles)
- Error Glove (Roblox: Slap Battles)
- Flex Glove (Roblox: Slap Battles)
- Berserk Glove (Roblox: Slap Battles)
- Link Glove (Roblox: Slap Battles)
- Mehrunes' Razor (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)
- One-Hit Obliterator (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- Boomerang (The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening)
- Light Arrows (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)
- Genmurei (Mega Man X5)
- Last Word (Planescape)
- Death Skills (Shin Megami Tensei)
- Certain Inkling weapons (Splatoon)
- Certain Octarian weapons (Splatoon)
- Various Characters (Guilty Gear)
- Butterfly Knife weapons (Team Fortress 2)
- Gae Bolg (TYPE-MOON)
Gallery[]
Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]
Akame's (Akame Ga Kill!) One Cut Killer: Murasame kills any it cuts with a cursed poison, even the user if not careful while cleaning the blade.
Omnimon X (Digimon) is able to one hit kill opponents with his All Delete attack.
Roku Tadano (Game Maou) can kill enemies with one swing of his sword.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto) using her Murderous Bone Ash/All-Killing Ash Bones that will cause her victims to disintegrate into ashes the moment it pierces the body.
Magellan's (One Piece) Hell's Judgement/Kinjite poison spreads like a disease through organic material and rocks and kills instantly the moment it infects the target.
Yui (Sword Art Online) wielding the Object Eraser, a flaming blade which can destroy anything it's used against, such as a boss monster that would be impossible to beat, in a single strike.
Jirou Sorashima (Wallman)
Saitama (One Punch Man) killing a Mantis Monster that destroyed his ceiling.
Cartoons/Comics[]
Trevor Belmont (Castlevania) can instantly kill most vampires with one strike of the Morning Star.
Lady Shiva's (DC Comics) using her signature Leopard's Blow, a single strike to the chest that kills her victim by disrupting their heartbeat.
Literature[]
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Peter Pettigrew (Harry Potter) uses the Killing Curse, reputably unstoppable and irreversible, to instantly kill Cedric Diggory.
Video Games[]
White Bomber (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack) detonating a Gravity Bomb, which will kill any and all it sucks in instantly, including White Bomber if he's not careful.
Mehrunes' Razor (Elder Scrolls) is the Daedric Artifact of Mehrunes Dagon and has a chance of killing any being with a single cut.
The Vorpal Sword (Jabberwock) can kill the Jabberwocky with one hit. In other lore, it can kill anything with a single cut.
The One-Hit Obliterator (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) is a divine weapon capable of felling a foe in a single stroke at the expense of exhibiting the same circumstances to the wielder.
Link's (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) Light Arrows will instantly kill any evil forces it pierces, bypassing any defenses and vanquishing it in pure light.
Scorpion (Mortal Kombat) using his signature Toasty fatality to blow up Raiden.
The Ultimate Chimera (Mother 3) is an enemy that pursues Lucas' party through the Chimera Laboratory and can instantly kill if it catches you
Machina's (Shinza Banshou series) Briah, Midgardr Völsunga Saga, allows him, with merely a single blow, to erase the existence of anything with a history, including living beings, inanimate objects, and even concepts.
With Margueritte-Bois de Justice, Ren Fuji (Shinza Banshou series) can instantly kill anything, even immortal beings, as long as the blade of the scythe makes contact with the the target's neck.
Certain weapons the Inklings (Splatoon) use deal enough damage in one hit to "splat" their enemies instantly.
Agent 3 (Splatoon)
Certain weapons the Octarians (Splatoon), such as DJ Octavio, use deal enough damage in one hit to "splat" Agent 3 instantly.
Gae Bolg (TYPE-MOON) warps causality to it always the target's heart. Combined with the spear diving into countless thorns that destroy the target's innards when it pierces the heart, the only way to survive is to have a high enough luck stat for the attack to miss.
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With Azrael, King Hassan's (TYPE-MOON) blade has the potential to kill a target with the slightest cut, regardless of the target's own strength, though the probability of this is low.
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